Suspended car for cable-roads



2 Sheets- Sheet 1.

0. LEAVITT.

LE OADS. 41 a July 29, 1884.

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SUSPENDED CAR. FOR CABLE ROADS. No. 302,746. Patented July 23, 1884.

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CHARLES LEAVITT, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

SUSPENDED CAR FOR CABLE-ROADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,746, dated July 29, 18-84.

Application filed April-29, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES LEAVITT, of Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Suspended Cars for Cable-Roads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable oth ers skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in elevated cable-railways, and more especially to mechanism for raising and gripping the cable on cars that are suspended under the track, the object being to provide a vertically-moving frame with a laterally-projecting head provided with a clutch for gripping the cable, and mechanism for operating the frame and clutch from the ear, and so arranged that by raising the frame the cable is lifted by the projecting head from the carrying-wheel, so that when the cable is gripped and the car propelled thereby the projecting head passes over the carrying-wheeels, and when the frame is depressed the head passes the carryingwheels.

\Vith these objects in view my invention consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

My invention is designed as an improvement on devices for which I have already obtained Letters Patent of the United States, to wit: No. 211,026, dated December 17, 187 S, and No. 264,464, dated September 19, 1882.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation ofthe car and my improved device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the clutch for gripping the cable; and Fig. 4 is a detached view or the sliding frame and its guide.

A represents the. car, suspended by the rods to from the truck 13, that is mounted on the fiangeless wheels B, that engage the tracks I), and are guided by the lateral wheels I).

0 represents the cable supported on the overhanging earrying-wheels O,that are journaled on suitable axles secured to one side of the support 6, as shown.

D is a vertically-sliding frame operating in (No model.)

guides E, attached to the truck-frame, and provided with the rack d, that engages the pinion F, thatismounted on the shaft F, journaled in suitable boxes attached to the truckframe, and is provided with the grooved wheel f or equivalent lever device, and to which a cord'is attached leading to the car below, and by means of which the frame D and attachments are raised or lowered, as required.

To the frame D is secured the overhanging head G, provided with a gripping device hereinafter described, and with the friction-rollers g. WVhen the frame D is in its lowest position, the head G passes under the wheels 0, that are usually about thirty feet (more or less) apart; or the frame D may be raised until the head Gr will pass above the wheels 0, and the relation of parts is such that the cable comes in contact with the rollers g and is raised with the head, and held in positionto be gripped by the clutch that is shown more clearly in Fig. 3. The head ,G has an upwardly-proj ecting rib, G, that forms one side of the clutch, and has a sliding frame, II, that forms the other side of the clutch. The frame II is reciprocated by the cam H, and made to release or grip the cable, as desired. This cam is firmly secured to the end of the upright shaft h, the lower end of which is provided with the grooved wheel h, to which cords are attached leading to the platform of the car, and by means of which the clutch is operated. The lower portion of the shaft h is provided with a groove, and the wheel h with a feather, and the shaft slides through the wheel h and the box h as it is raised or lowered with the frame I).

- The shaft It may beprovided with acam (not shown) for operating the brakes I I, and may have a laterally-projecting arm, J, that may engage stops along the track and automatically releasing the cable-clutch. Theselast-named devices are fully described in my former patent, and it is not considered necessary to further describe them here.

'What I claim is 1. The eombination,with an elevated trackway, a cable, and cablesupportin g wheels, of a truck, a car suspended from the truck, a vertically-sliding frame attached to the truck, and gripping devices attached to the frame, all of the above parts operating substantially as set pinion, and the gripping device attached to forth. the frame.

2. The combination,with an elevated track- In testimony whereof I sign this specificaway, a cable located above the trackway, and tion, in the presence of two witnesses, this 11th 5 cable-supporting rollers, of atruck the wheels day of April, 1884.

of which rest on the trackway, a car suspended from the truck below the trackway, a ver- CHARLES LEAVITT' tically-movable frame provided with a rack- W'itnesses: bar, a pinion engaging the ra elebar, devices, CHAS. H. DORER, IO substantially as described, for operating the ALBERT E. LYNCH. 

